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“Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.”

Happens Perception Miracle Everyday Miracles Do Happen

“Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.”

Writing Humans Facts Life Is Perception Paint Timeless Accord Vacuums

Author:William S. Burroughs

“As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is.”

People Persons Difficult Walks Degrees Perception Overcoming Obstacles Assumption Disability Crutches Cerebral Cerebral Palsy

Author:Greg Walloch

“As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature.”

Belief Letting Go Essentials Perception Clouds Toxicity

Author:Deepak Chopra

“In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything.”

Way Perception

Author:Annie Lennox

“Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.”

“To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.”

Attention Perception Commitment Pay Attention

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“There are so many levels of understanding and experience when it comes to this thing we call love. In our human relationships, it can be vastly complicated. Each of us has our own unique love-history, perceptions, and expectations.”

Humans Understanding Levels Perception Unique Expectations Complicated Human Relations Human Relationships Unique Love

Author:Michael Beckwith

“Thirty years of spiritual practice has given me the realization that emotions are based on our perceptions, whether or not they are based on reality.”

Years Reality Spiritual Given Emotion Practice Perception Realization Thirty Thirty Years Spiritual Practice

Author:Michael Beckwith

“If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now.”

Ifs War Existence Generations Position Planets Perception Superiors Torn Future Generation Drought

Author:Nikki Reed

“Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.”

Attention Perception Interpretation Selective

Book:Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

Source: Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

“What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.”

Body Reality Habit Perception Aging Including Physical Body

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Ask yourself, "Is there anything in my life that is causing me to feel a sense of unease, discomfort, or pain?" You can choose a persistent issue that has bothered you for years, or it may be something that has recently come up for you. While it's fine to focus on a chronic, physical disorder, don't approach this exercise as a cure - we're focusing on patterns of perception that encourage us to hold onto suffering.”

Feels Years May Pain Suffering Asks Issues Focus Fine Exercise Perception Approach Patterns Come Up Cures Disorder Persistent Discomfort Bothered

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

Self Spiritual Understanding Leadership Business Psychology Relationship Awareness Human Nature Positive Thinking Humility Communication Wise Words Perception Discovery Self Awareness Profound Annoying Interaction Partnership Our Relationship Imitation Bad Ass Thyself Relationship Advice Psychiatrist Psychologist Be True To Yourself Being Single Human Relationships Of My Mind Love Relationship Funny Relationship Irritating Synchronicity Interacting Irritated Memories Dreams Reflections Irritation Understanding Others Social Interaction Self Understanding Relationships With Others Self Knowing Self-examination Happy Relationship Interacting With Others Knowledge And Understanding Collective Unconscious Love And Relationship Psychoanalytic Understanding And Love Optimistic Life Awareness Of Life Love Wisdom Funny Being Single Understanding Yourself Light Of My Life Perception Of Others Awareness Of Others Working A Lot Spiritual Relationship Inner Darkness Profound Thoughts Spiritual Partnership Understanding Things Understanding Knowledge Being Annoyed Two Personalities Reader's Digest Understanding Everything Becoming Who You Are Deceiving Ourselves

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

Looks Reality Belief Perspective Depends Perception Thoughtful Flirting Hippie Immature Synchronicity Memories Dreams Reflections Perspective On Things

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“I've also found that trying to be active with social media changes my moment-to-moment perceptions. Instead of feeling, "What's the deepest version of what's happening here?" I start to feel, "How can I use [or "claim"] this?".”

Feels Trying Moments Use Feelings Found Social Media Perception Happenings Claims Social Media Active Versions

Author:George Saunders

“The perception that Donald Trump has softened on immigration or is about to soften on immigration has some on the right concerned that he could lose support among his most loyal base of supporters, though he`d been drawn to his hard-line positions on immigration early in the campaign.”

Hard Loses Lines Support Position Trump Perception Concerned Campaigns Immigration Loyal Supporter

Author:Steve Kornacki

“The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.”

People Hands Strong Issues Media Perception Agendas Strong Hands

Author:Rob Lowe

“We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.”

Vision Perception Focused Defense Daily Life Mechanism Tunnels Jaded Defense Mechanisms Tunnel Vision

Author:Vera Nazarian

“In Lords of Rainbow I start out by taking away color from the world, and in the process show color's vital place in our lives. At least I hope that by the end of the book it's a portion of what the reader comes away with - a sense of how much color perception enriches our lives and how its lack can make our sensory experience incomplete.”

World Book Ends Shows Process Lord Our Lives Color Reader Perception Portions Rainbow Incomplete Sensory

Author:Vera Nazarian

“No waving of enchanted wands but heightened perception. No magic objects, but a transformed and enhanced reality. No spells or chants, but the raw power of the human will to enact supernatural change upon the universal fabric. This is the kind of "magic" that fills Lords of Rainbow - elemental, organic, humanistic - an extension of reality.”

Humans Kind Reality Lord Magic Objects Perception Universal Spells Transformed Rainbow Fabric Extensions Enchanted Wands Elementals Humanistic Human Will

Author:Vera Nazarian

“When you're in the grip of frustration, love can seem pretty much out of the question. Care is going to be a stretch. But appreciation is easy-even if it starts out kind of snide like, "I appreciate the fact I haven't fallen flat on my face ... yet." After a couple of stabs at it, you're going to stumble across one that sincerely touches you. Maybe it's your friends, your partner, your loved ones. One strong dose of appreciation can turn your perceptions around 180 degrees.”

Ifs Kind Facts Seems Care Faces Turns Strong Easy Havens Couple Degrees Perception Appreciate Appreciation Partners Fallen Frustration Flats Loved Ones Sincerely Dose

Author:Doc Childre

“The type of Buddhist practices that I talk about in 'The Art of Happiness' have to do with reconditioning one's way of thinking and one's outlook, and one's perception and how one relates to people. That type of thing, any Westerner can practice at any time.”

People Thinking Way Art Practice Type Perception Buddhist Relate Outlook Way Of Thinking Westerners Art Of Happiness

Author:Howard Cutler

“In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.”

People Thinking Culture Term Perception Concerned Musical Legacy

Author:Alan Bishop

“To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.”

Littles Play Boys Stage Perception Little Boys Older Women

Author:Andrea Suarez Paz

“There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might be termed, an Order of the Quest. It is composed of those whose intellectual and spiritual perceptions have revealed to them that civilisation has a secret Destiny... The outcome of this 'secret destiny' is a World Order ruled by a king with supernatural powers[the antichrist]. This king was descended of a divine race; that is, he belonged to the Order of the Illumined; for those who come to a state of wisdom then belong to a family of heroes-perfected human beings.”

“Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the imagination.”

Reason Imagination Perception

Book:The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View

Source: The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View

“The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures of the world. New pictures cast their influence before facts can be seen in a different perspective.”

World Different Facts Influence Theory Perspective Degrees Perception Expectations Notion Casts Arise Colour Different Perspective Old Picture

Author:Niles Eldredge

“One of the most important analytic tools when assessing an investment is an intellectually advantaged disparate view. This includes knowing more and perceiving the situation better than others do. It is also critical to have a keen understanding of what the market expectations for any investment truly are. Thus, the process by which a disparate perception, when correct, becomes consensus should lead to meaningful profit. Understanding market expectation is at least as important as, and often different from fundamental knowledge.”

“Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.”

Perspective Perception Fascinating New Perspective

Author:Tim Gunn

“Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.”

Ifs Turns Given Memories Risk Subjects Judgment Perception Aim Operations Etc Affirmation Competence Competent Assessment Inference

Author:Ernest Sosa

“It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go wrong, or, if we do stumble on the truth, it is by accident, so that we cannot be sure that we are not in error.”

Ifs Certain Pieces Perception Errors Accidents Reasoning Lacking

Author:Ernest Sosa

“In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened to be the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century. I would like to think that I could emulate at least his modesty - his refusal to exaggerate his perception of himself and his place in the larger scheme of things - even if my work never compares with his in its importance.”

Ifs Thinking Men Found Chance Simple Moral Happened Century Honest Perception Importance Philosopher Compare Modesty Schemes Acquaintance Twentieth Century Refusal Honest Man Emulate

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be a bit confusing and scattering. But as the artist, as the man behind the velvet rope who controls the smoke and the mirrors and the way that things move in the painted space, what I want to do is to try my best to be a good witness.”

Thinking Men Way Want Trying Moving Artist Bits Space Behinds He Man Painting Perception Mirrors Witness Smoke Halls Confusing Rope Velvet Juggling

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I agree and I disagree in the sense that I think that he [Donald Trump] has a fondness for autocrats, but at the same time, isn't he talking about like perception of defending your country.”

Thinking Country Talking Trump Perception Agree Disagree Fondness

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“In the case of Philando Castile, we believe he was complying, it might have been precipitated by a police officer telling him to open the glove compartment.We have other examples in which people have met the same fate when they appear to be complying. Yet the way that the system tends to operate and the way the police when you talk to them view that situation is they are looking for things that trigger their perception of threat and that`s a highly subjective judgment.”

People Way Believe Has Beens Might Views Situation Cases Fate Example Mets Judgment Perception Police Threat Officers Might Have Been Subjective Triggers Gloves Police Officer Complying

Author:Chris Hayes

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

Ends Reason Understanding Knowledge Higher Perception Senses Express Yourself Knowledge And Ignorance Categorical Imperative

Author:Immanuel Kant

“The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.”

Thinking Trying Use Minutes Perception Democratic Boycott

Author:Shimon Peres

“I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.”

Feels Wells Film Actors Tvs Perception Viewers

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.”

May Character Reader Perception Originals

Author:Stephen King

“It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are contributing to. To function effectively those markets and the men and women who shape them have to command trust and confidence, because we all rely on the market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not be 100 percent true, if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that should be a problem for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that absolutely clear.”

“I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.”

Play Perception

Author:Kim Kardashian

“I hated that perception that I didn't work hard, that I really don't love basketball.”

Hard Hard Work Basketball Perception Hated Love And Basketball

Author:Dwight Howard

“I know you can't please everybody; you can't make everybody happy, but just getting that perception that I don't care about basketball and what it brings is a lie.”

Knows Care Lying Please Basketball Perception Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Dwight Howard

“Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.”

Perception Structure Construction Strict

Author:Stephen Mallinder

“People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.”

People Want Has Beens Particular Perception

Author:Desmond Tutu

“For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.”

Feels Ideas Might Perception Absurdity Random Thoughts

Author:Jon Glaser

“In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.”

World Sometimes Reality Powerful This World Perception News Cycles

Author:Omar Epps

“When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.”

Thinking Knows World Persons Certain Stupid Position Perception Intellectual Instinct Intuition Actresses Reasoning Perception Of The World Thinking Person

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the biggest part of the problem decided it wasn't going to make any effort to help with the solution.”

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